To put it another way: a conference is an elite meeting on equal terms; a congress is a group of elites meeting on opposite terms; a convention is a mob meeting on equal terms; a course is an elite instructing a mob; and a colloquium is a group capable of considering all these phenomena.

Reading someone else's newspaper is like sleeping with someone else's wife. Nothing seems to be precisely in the right place, and when you find what you are looking for, it is not clear then how to respond to it.

Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.

I like the English. They have the most rigid code if immorality in the world.

Genitals are a great distraction to scholarship

Most beds aren't as intimate as people think they are.

I've noticed your hostility towards him... I ought to have guessed you were friends.